Object Number 1962.0568

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

THOMAS PRINCE A.M./ Quintus Ecclesiae Australis Bostonii Novanglorum Pastor, e Collegii Harvardini/ CANTABRIGIAE Curatoribus, SAMUELIS Armigeri Filius et Thomae AM. denati Pater

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Peter Pelham (Mezzotinter)
c.1697-1751

John Greenwood (Painter)
1727-1792
Greenwood was the son and grandson of prosperous Boston shipwrights. He was apprenticed to the engraver and japanner Thomas Johnston for three years, and then began his career as a portrait painter. In 1752, he sailed for Surinam and did not return to America. He painted more than one hundred portraits, and in his later years (after 1773) was a dealer in art objects in London, where he died.

James Buck (Publisher and printseller)
References: Franklin, Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: 1640-1800, p. 60.

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1750

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; P. Pelham fecit.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; Jn;\o Greenwood Pinx.
3. Inscription; Lower right, beneath title; Printed for & Sold by J. Buck at y\e Spectacles in Queen Street Boston.

Subjects

Portrait; Clergy

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint

Dimensions (inches)

14.1 (H) , 10 (W) , 11.9 (Image H) , 9.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

35.9 (H) , 25.4 (W) , 11.9 (Image H) , 9.4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 13.7 in. (34.9 cm). Plate W: 9.5 in. (24.2 cm). H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Buck, James

Publication Date

1750

Place of Publication

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

State

I

Watermark

Lily above a shield with the initials: "L V G"

Edition Notes

Only one state recorded.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 116, p. 44.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 3. 941-1428.
• Print listed as no.32, p.977.